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in Parshat Pinḣas it says: (Numbers 26:54) “To the large [tribe] you shall give a larger inheritance and to a smaller [tribe] you shall give a smaller inheritance, each person shall be given an ...

In 1644 Antonio Montezinos, a Portuguese traveler originally known as Aharon Levi, returned to Amsterdam with an astonishing story about the people he had encountered in the proverbial depths of South ...

Shortly before dying, our father Jacob gathered his twelve sons around his death-bed and gave them a tantalisingly brief glimpse into the future. To each son he gave some cryptic prophecy concerning ...

One of the most fascinating historic and halakhic issues to come to life in our generation is the attempt to identify the lost ten tribes, descending from the Kingdom of Israel. Unity of the nation ...

The tribes being spoken of are, of course, those of ancient Israel. The Israelites were divided into 12 tribes (not including the Levites who were not landowners). Each tribe was assigned a piece of ...

Over 2,700 years ago, the Assyrians exiled the ten tribes of the Kingdom of Israel. The ten tribes would have returned at once to the Holy Land had not the Lord encircled them with the legendary river ...